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Mon Oct-19-09 12:04 PM
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Poll question: Diversity Poll |
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We here at DU pride our diversity ... so how diverse are we racially?
It is time to show off to the Freepers...
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Mon Oct-19-09 12:25 PM
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when's the showing off part supposed to start?
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Mon Oct-19-09 12:28 PM
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2. I am a little surprised too ... |
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Mon Oct-19-09 12:29 PM
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Mon Oct-19-09 12:46 PM
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4. Personally, I think what sets us apart is our respect for diverse cultures... |
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those that include, but are not limited to, the color of our skin.
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Mon Oct-19-09 01:12 PM
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Edited on Mon Oct-19-09 01:14 PM by HamdenRice
It must seem that way if you're not a person of color.
:rofl: :rofl: :rofl:
So respectful that the OP decided not to include (or is simply unaware of) one of this country's largest racial groups, African Americans.
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Mon Oct-19-09 02:06 PM
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15. I put them under Africans . arent they the same ? |
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Mon Oct-19-09 02:12 PM
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Edited on Mon Oct-19-09 02:21 PM by HamdenRice
Africans live in Africa or are from there. "African Americans" are a creolized American culture that has been here several hundred years plus Afro-Caribbean and African immigrants who have been absorbed into the group.
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Mon Oct-19-09 06:38 PM
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Mon Oct-19-09 01:08 PM
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5. Pasty white...like most everybody else here, it seems. |
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What, exactly, are we showing off?
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Mon Oct-19-09 01:08 PM
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6. In the words of Happy Gilmore, |
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"Talk about your all-time backfires......"
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Mon Oct-19-09 01:10 PM
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7. rofl, dosent seem to be the diversity the poster expected |
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at least my vote tried to balance it out...
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Mon Oct-19-09 01:11 PM
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8. It's a vast right wing conspiracy.. all the trolls are skewing the results of my poll |
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Edited on Mon Oct-19-09 01:12 PM by TheCoxwain
where is my tin foil hat?
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Mon Oct-19-09 01:16 PM
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10. DU has always been overwhelmingly white, and not racially diverse |
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Edited on Mon Oct-19-09 01:48 PM by HamdenRice
When there was a gallery, we extrapolated from it on the assumption that the gallery was a representative sample (not necessarily a valid assumption, but anyway...)
Iirc, it was concluded back then that DU was about 90-95% white, so the 81% number is a vast improvement.
You might have gotten better results if you had not excluded one of the country's largest minority groups, African Americans.
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Mon Oct-19-09 03:37 PM
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21. African-American is option number two. |
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Mon Oct-19-09 03:52 PM
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25. Most African Americans are not going to click on "African" |
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They are different identities. Inadvertently, perhaps, the OP left out a major ethnic group.
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Mon Oct-19-09 04:52 PM
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Mon Oct-19-09 06:41 PM
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42. Aren't you absolutely terrified that this point even has to be made?? |
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Most African Americans are not going to click on "African"
Sweet Jesus. What year is it again??!
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Mon Oct-19-09 03:54 PM
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26. the actual africans i know differentiate themselves from african-americans |
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and get offended if you try to say that they are the same, i guess i could say the same as you would call me white but i would never consider calling myself it.
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Mon Oct-19-09 04:49 PM
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33. Based on the replies to racial topics about how people are supposed to feel or act |
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I would have expected many many more AAs and Latinos.
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Mon Oct-19-09 05:01 PM
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37. Did you leave out a sarcasm smilie? |
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Mon Oct-19-09 01:18 PM
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Mon Oct-19-09 01:39 PM
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12. We need someone to DU this poll. n/t |
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Mon Oct-19-09 01:44 PM
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13. Thanks for rubbing it in. NT. |
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Mon Oct-19-09 01:45 PM
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14. If my middle school students are any indication . . . |
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I say that future generations will pick the mixed choice. We are beginning to be a real melting pot.
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Mon Oct-19-09 02:15 PM
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17. Just wanted to point out. |
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Hispanic = Spaniard = Caucasian.
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Mon Oct-19-09 02:44 PM
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18. What about the ethnic Mayan and Aztec people? |
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Mon Oct-19-09 04:12 PM
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29. Sorry I don't have much time to type direct responses at the moment, but, |
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if you read the links I posted below in an earlier thread, it may provide an answer.
Thanks.
Peace, Xicano
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Mon Oct-19-09 03:32 PM
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"Hispanic" refers more commonly to shared language, not genetics. I live in an area with a large Mexican-American population. I would definitely not describe most of them as white. And for the record, Hispanic, Latino, and Chicano are aften used interchangably in American culture, but many people who self-identify as belonging to one of those groups will strongly not identify as belonging to either of the other two groups. For example, I used to live in an area with a large Puerto Rican population, and most of the folks I interacted with wanted to be referred to as Hispanic. But out here in Denver, I hear folks referring to themselves as either Latino or Chicano, and it often depends on where their family came from originially and/or how much white blood they claim/identify with in their ancestry.
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Mon Oct-19-09 03:48 PM
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If you wish to read up a little on this subject, I posted some info about this recently in another thread. Here's a couple links so I don't have to type it out again. Sorry, I am a bit too busy at the moment to respond more directly. http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=show_topic&forum=103&topic_id=484674#484713http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=show_topic&forum=103&topic_id=484674#484696Peace, Xicano
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Mon Oct-19-09 04:51 PM
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I should have clarified that my perceptions of how people self-identify was based on my personal experience talking about race with people commonly referred to by others as Latino/Hispanic/Mexican-American/Chicano, and may not be indicative of all people who self-identify those ways. In reality, we are such a nation of mutts no single definition of anyone's heritage is all-encompassing of every individual life story and personal identity.
For example, I chose to identify as white in this poll b/c my mother's ancestry is northern European, my skin is white, and I was raised in white American culture. However, I could just have easily identified as Arab-American because my father was a first generation Arab-American, much of my extended family identifies as and continue Arab traditions in familial context, and my full-blood sister is very dark skinned.
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Mon Oct-19-09 03:54 PM
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27. The OP made a number of mistakes |
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Some people accept Hispanic, some don't. It would have been better to say something like, "Hispanic, Mexican-American, Puerto Rican or other Latino/a"
Just as by leaving out African American and only putting Africa, the OPer's choices probably skewed the results.
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Mon Oct-19-09 03:36 PM
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20. Showin' off our diversity! |
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Mon Oct-19-09 03:44 PM
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22. Not quite the diversity you were expecting, I'm guessing. |
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Mon Oct-19-09 03:51 PM
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Mon Oct-19-09 04:45 PM
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30. I Suppose I Could Have Voted "Other" And Somewhat Increased the Diversity |
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After all, many people seem to think "gay" is a nationality.
Meanwhile, where's the line for the Moon People? Are you assuming they all just quit after Obama bombed the moon, or are you just being racially exclusionary!?
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Mon Oct-19-09 04:47 PM
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but I'm actually mixed. I didn't see mixed till too late.
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Mon Oct-19-09 04:47 PM
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32. Where all the white women at? |
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Mon Oct-19-09 05:08 PM
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Mon Oct-19-09 04:57 PM
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36. We are almost as lily-white as Freeper Land I imagine. |
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Mon Oct-19-09 05:07 PM
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38. Not quite but damn close! |
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Mon Oct-19-09 06:40 PM
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41. How come there is an option for 'African' but not 'European'? |
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Tue Oct-20-09 02:17 PM
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45. Do we get a white hood and robe now? |
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Wed Oct-21-09 07:36 PM
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46. just curious, but what is wrong with that? |
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why is it ok to say it is too white, not not ok to say its too anyone else?
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